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Definition of animus in English:

animus

noun

‘There are more and more articles being written about the intense animus toward president Bush among Democratic partisans.’

‘I have absolutely no animus towards Bloomberg, and he if he was running against Sharpton, I'd certainly vote for him.’

‘Both parties walk away with a clean reputation and no animus toward the other.’

‘The animus of your reporter to my comments was clearly evident in the story he wrote, especially in citing the group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, an advocacy organization that has falsely attributed stories to me in the past.’

‘They also required the University to take no action motivated by hostility, animus, or disapproval toward Brady's pregnancy.’

‘Ponting's animus toward Churchill never reaches Irving's level of contempt but he has his moments.’

‘For his part, Walsh declines to respond to Armstrong's bitter personal criticism in kind, and he displays no outward signs of animus toward the Tour champion.’

‘The Brahmins were known for their tendency to absorb, assimilate and upgrade deities, not for exhibiting animus towards them.’

‘The animus and hostility and the intensity of feeling evidenced by this act of the accused does not outweigh its prejudicial effect.’

‘Soelle's animus toward the church is just as implacable.’

‘He insists, not entirely convincingly, that he harbours no animus towards the First Minister.’

‘The first lady never overcame her animus toward the Bushes and the feeling was heartily reciprocated.’

‘Though it is not clear what lies at the root of Kennedy's anger, it long predates his involvement in Bristol; indeed his animus against the medical profession was already evident in his Reith Lectures more than 20 years earlier.’

‘In his letter, Jenkins suggests that Wills' animus toward him is related to his deeper animus toward the Catholic Church.’

‘To a man they deny any animus toward the Chinese.’

‘Of course it reflects Dostoevsky's animus toward Catholicism, but it depicts the temptation to which religion, and all forms of Christian religion, not just Catholicism, are susceptible.’

‘Fournier is, perhaps because of his animus toward the Vice-President, no stickler for accuracy.’

‘Yet while in other French cities the violence continues, in Marseille the animus soon fizzled out.’

‘Motivation refers to the animus for behavior and includes the affective aspects of attitudes, desires, ends, aims, goals, objectives, desired end states, and the like.’

‘The ideology of the organising cadre or party is adopted, and its rhetoric comes to be used to express the anger which is the animus of the revolution.’

‘Isn't this pretty much the animus behind advanced capitalism?’

‘It is true that a nationalistic animus did not rally the Russian people into a cohesive national body with the idea of restoring the country's international standing regardless of the cost, as was the case in 1933 Germany.’